Tajikistan Mine Action News
Tajikistan Mine Action Centre Staff Meeting with
high representative of UNDP Country Director Mr.
Rastislav Vrbensky
has been
held on 22 January 2009, 10:00-12:00 at TMAC office,
15 Mahmadali Kurbonov Street.
The head
of Tajik Mine Action Center (TMAC) presented the
Program activities and the request to extent
implementation of Mine Action Program in the context
of implementation responsibilities on Ottawa
Convention. The Country Director highly appreciated
progress activity implemented in 2008 and thanked
TMAC staff and partners Swiss Foundation for
Demining for their hard and effective work on mine
clearance, victim assistance, advocacy and mine risk
education in 22 districts of the Republic of
Tajikistan. He pointed out the high level of
collaboration with significant partners and
ministries in the framework of Mine Action Program.
The meeting with the UNDP Country Director and staff
of TMAC provided environment to have better
understanding of major issues concerning to the
achievements of goals and objectives for the period
of 2009.
Mr.
Rastislav Vrbensky mentioned as well the evaluation
carried out by the External Evaluator, Mr. Robert
Keelley. Country Director presented recommendations
given by Mr.Robert Keelley and considered them as
strategic direction towards activities to be
undertaken in 2009. He supported TMAC staff members’
recommendations given for the evaluation and
underlined these recommendations for further
development of the TMAC capacity building, five
pillars of Mine Action Program.
Following
main issues have been discussed:
·
Integrated Small Arms Light Weapons in MRE
·
Cooperation with the partners
·
Access to mine Detecting Machine
·
Advancing Resource Mobilization with TMAC
·
Involvement of fundraising
The
meeting was held in collaborative and supportive
atmosphere with the hope that further actions will
be highly considered by the UNDP Mine Action Program
in Tajikistan.
Photos from
meeting.
